London 2012 blog

LOCOG’s security team recently welcomed UK and international security partners to an IOC-sponsored security workshop.

We welcomed a high level delegation of police and security officials planning for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to Canary Wharf HQ for a jam-packed agenda. Members of the 24-agency Olympic Security Directorate - the “OSD” - joined the team to make the workshop a full-house.

LOCOG organised a series of presentations providing security lessons learnt from past Games. A star-studded cast of Olympic Security speakers included:

Vassilios Konstantinidis (Director of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Security Division);
Duncan Jarrett (former Metropolitan Police Officer and Athens 2004 adviser);
Peter Ryan (an IOC security consultant and Head of the New South Wales Police during Sydney 2000); and
Francesco Norante (Former Head of Security for Turin 2006 and currently Vancouver 2010’s Director of Security Integration).

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